Wisdom 14:14 CPDV

¹²  For the beginning of fornication is the search for idols, and from their invention comes corruption of life.

¹³  For they neither existed from the beginning, nor will they exist forever.

¹⁴  For by the great emptiness of men they came into the world, and therefore their end is soon discovered.

¹⁵  For a father, embittered with the suffering of grief, made an image of his son, who had been suddenly taken away from him, and then, he who had died as a man, now begins to be worshiped as if a god, and so rites and sacrifices are established among his servants.

¹⁶  Then, in the course of time, iniquity gains strength within this erroneous custom, so that this error has been observed as if it were a law, and this figment has been worshiped at the command of tyrants.